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Postcards from the Edge(1990)
Status: Released
Date: 1990-09-14
66%
278 Votes
Time: 1h 41m
Having a wonderful time, wish I were here.
Overview:
Substance-addicted Hollywood actress, Suzanne Vale is on the skids. After a spell at a detox centre her film company insists as a condition of continuing to employ her that she live with her mother, herself once a star and now a champion drinker. Such a set-up is bad news for Suzanne who has struggled for years to get out of her mother's shadow, and who still treats her like a child. Despite these and other problems, Suzanne begins to see the funny side of her situation, and also realises that not only do daughters have mothers—mothers do too.
Languages: English.
Countries:
United States of America
Budget: $22,000,000.00
Revenue: $39,071,603.00
ProductionCompanies: 
Movie: Postcards from the Edge
Top 10 Billed Cast
Meryl Streep
Suzanne Vale
Shirley MacLaine
Doris Mann
Dennis Quaid
Jack Faulkner
Gene Hackman
Lowell Kolchek
Richard Dreyfuss
Dr. Frankenthal
Rob Reiner
Joe Pierce
Mary Wickes
Grandma
Conrad Bain
Grandpa
Annette Bening
Evelyn Ames
Simon Callow
Simon Asquith
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